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Thank yoo so much for joining us for this we call this Last Call yes where we uh have a last call on the topics we didn't get to in the first portion alvin Reed we go to Webster uh which is next door to your beloved Kirkwood yes webster has something called no mo April and that means they're encouraging pollinators to uh do their thing on people's lawns and they encourage people not to mow their lawns in April to enhance the lives of pollinators what do you think well I think it's a good idea which I don't follow and here's why we have a dogwood tree in our front yard okay my dad and I planted it years and years and years ago my grand uh mother was still alive it blooms like Easter week especially on Good Friday that's the reason that I mow my lawn right probably one time in April but I'm about to mow it because it's Easter and three4s of Americans you know some of That's right that's right those numbers so me and Eric Smith go mow our lawn yeah see there you go using religion again my husband waits all winter to commune with the front yard to be one with the front yard so you will get his lawn mower when you pry it out of his cold dead hands that is that's that's not going to happen i think it's a great idea that they recommend it and then everybody go ahead and do whatever the heck they want because it's their lawn i mean great Webster says don't mow your lawn in April for people looking for an excuse embrace Webster's pollinator theory but if you feel like you want a nice neat looking lawn go out there and cut it people who've let their lawn grow and say "This is nature this is Missouri wild grass or something."

Yeah and honestly that that's the better approach because the problem with no mo April is that you destroy the habitat on May the 1 or whenever you mow it and wouldn't it be better to set aside a portion of your property for those flowers plant material which help the bees the New York Times by the way Joe had a story uh last week that bees were losing bees again oh the bees no it's true they've been dying for decades come on they move stories on the wire about killing anti-science what is your science they've been telling me literally since I was in college that the bees are this close to extinction we have fewer come on right exactly yeah and how and how has that impacted your life well because three suddenly it will though suddenly it will it'll be like global warming we didn't notice and all of a sudden boom it's here and I think the bees they knew i I bought I bought into the whole story that without bees we're not going to have successfully grow product i believe that you have bought into that whole story no no that's the truth though without bees we're done you do realize that i get that okay actually without a whole bunch of animals in the animal chain we got bees are the one they've been bringing up and we have been this close to extinction by events I'm just saying if we don't have bees we don't have My point is it's my lawn people's lawns you cut it when you want to okay in Chesterfield the pollinators are usually in Florida until after Easter and then they come home so okay uh Joe I want to ask you um this week in her inauguration speech Cara Spencer the new mayor of St louis uh said that she'd like to decrease reckless driving again this is a a theme that she's pounded on and did so in the election i think it really helped her get elected turns out the very same week a study came out indicating that St louis is the worst county in the country for hit-and-run fatalities so the timing was good but if the state is taking over the St louis Metropolitan Police Department thanks to recent legislation in Jeff City the mayor will have one seat on that new police board does she have much say now when it comes to reckless driving i think she has as much say as all the other mayors who served as mayor when the state ran the police board the the idea of the city running its own police department is not the norm that's the exception there was a hundred or so years when it was run by the state and I believe the mayor has a lot of things that a mayor can do there's traffic signs there's oneway streets you can get alderman to pass uh bills that direct traffic different ways and you put more police out on the street to enforce the rules so this ide But neither did Vince Sheam neither did Jim Conway neither did AJ and there wasn't a problem then was there there wasn't a problem there was a problem that's why they want to control back of the police department charlie if if Governor Ke makes good nominations and I suspect he will and these are business people who who have an interest in the city or live in the city i I think that they'll go along with the idea of we got to stop reckless driving that's not like a wild hairrained idea governor Kho I support President Trump i'm ditching away with DEI a whole litany of other things that people in the city of St louis don't want to see he's gonna make good appointments for the I I suspect he will i mean just just like Parson I wasn't a fan but Gabe Gore that was a good price that was a good I mean the idea all right the these folks No no no but Bill you keep saying did I miss the memo that these are going to be businessmen you always say these are businessmen being Well I'm just I'm just going I'm going on past behavior the the police commissioners of the past were usually businessmen i mean they sometimes be father celebrities like Julius Hunter Hunter yeah yeah i'm not laughing at Julius Hunter i'm going to say like okay but the point I was trying to make before Charlie miss is that that traffic and reckless driving was not a problem under Vince Shamal like it was now when it was under local control so now you're making it sound like going to state control is going to make things even worse i know we'll find out i mean you know highways 44 70 64 40 could be patrolled by the state but they don't seem to be so I don't know i don't have too much faith in this this is also hit and this is like hit and run fatality i think people tend to think that when people get hit by cars and killed where the person just run off it's it's an accident it's whatever it is it's It isn't like there's tons of those we've just had like three or four where the person was hit killed and then somebody drove off the study says we're the worst no that's what I'm saying but when you when I first read that my thought was we led the nation in people being hit by cars and killed what we lead in is people being hit by cars killed and the motorists fleas there's a difference janelle Edmonson I mean that tragedy was that that gained us the kind of international attention that that we don't want and you you read about Le Sturman and and his ideas about you know sort of bringing all of the security forces together down there i think that I think that Cara is Mayor Spencer is going to have a very different approach and I think it's going to probably help okay we got to move on we have got two minutes to go two-minute warning joe Hollowman uh this week the mayor of the father of the former mayor Vervvis Jones criticized the 75% of the registered voters who didn't vote in uh the election this year i thought I said that last week maybe he's paring my words only joking doesn't he have a point it when 26% of the people show up that tells you something about the people in the city of St louis i am not surprised that the fault was found in the stars and not in themselves for losing this election uh this time uh 70 uh what do you say 76% of voters didn't or 79% of voters didn't show up should we be mad at the voters who didn't show up when 75 or so percent stayed home when Tashara Jones won we had a 26% turnout this time we had a 29% four years ago that's right so there's 70% staying at home and if you look at those 3% that it went down that's about 6,000 votes which meant if they all voted for Tashara Jones she'd have lost by 9,000 votes instead of by 15 it had no outcome on the election and even further I think that actually those 6,000 people that didn't show up they voiced their opinion in a way because they're either people who left the city of St louis or the people who stayed home and didn't vote at all also a choice so I has nothing to do with it might have been that she didn't do a good job i I just I no one I had to when I was a kid I lost baseball game or whatever i It really upset me i used to cry i had to learn how to lose graciously and that's all I could say to that is look you just got to Yeah there's some things that really bothered me about the mayoral election but hey you lose with grace we'll see you next time and if and if I'm Mayor Jones I'm thinking I'm going to have a talk with my father i mean truly because you're right there's a whole dog ate my homework thing going on there that that I think she she deserves better than that she should have had a talk with him long ago then i like Vervvis Jones but at a certain age you shouldn't be on social media not when your daughter Oh I don't know about your daughter's mayor i think he's got a point my daughter is pounding the pavement working for the city trying to get elected you guys don't even show up and I think he's got a you I have been complaining about the low turnout in the city of St louis and elsewhere for a long time i think if anybody said that if somebody looked and didn't have a didn't have a horse in that race kind of and just said like man that's really that's bad and people of St louis deserve whatever they get if only that many people show up regardless of the candidates now if he made that point then I stand with him and I stand with you Charlie and I think that's what maybe he was trying to say but he he he he didn't phrase it well unfortunately we are out of time thanks so much for your uh comments and thank you for joining us we'll see you next week with everybody